OK I HAD To Change The Title of This Review | 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (like me)

Outstanding!! | 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (like me) | John Fischer

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	• 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (like me) John Fischer Bethany House, 2000 - 171 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This is a must read for anyone trying to be a "better" person

This is an excellent book as it points out how we all constantly judge people to either make ourselves feel better or to justify certain things we do. Most people are not aware that they are doing this that extensively, but they are. To make the best effort to eliminate this bad habit from our lives we must rely on God's Grace and not try to go it alone as we will end up failing and then justifying our failures instead of relying on the grace of God for forgiveness and the strength to keep on trying. We all need to improve ourselves as people and Christians and not compare ourselves to others as this hides our need to improve. Read the book. I am not explaining it that well.

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OK I HAD To Change The Title of This Review

I scanned the book, looked over the chapter titles, etc. I sat down and began to read. A catchy review title popped into my head, "Just ONE Problem". I continued to read. The Book is great. The style is easy to read. The chapters are well laid out. The scholarship is above average. I WAS going to say that it had just ONE problem, those who most need to read it are least likely to do so. There's nothing that will make a Pharisee much angrier than use of the word "Pharisee".

THEN the book shifted gears. I began to realize that it was not so much aimed at correcting the negative actions done by angry religious pharisees as offering hope for greater maturity to those willing to accept God's grace. The key to this book is not the flamboyant title, "12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee" but the smaller subtitles, "like me: Finding Grace to Live Unmasked".

The person who most needed to read this book WAS reading it and preparing a review! I am glad that someone gave this book to me. I suggest that everyone willing to read it should, but read it for yourself, not to throw literary stones at others.

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Outstanding!!

John Fischer takes look at the common flaws created in our sin nature in a head-on, yet encouraging way typical of all his work.

Every chapter will have you saying "Yeah! That's me!"

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A Book for Everyone

This is a book for everyone. In fact, if you don't think you need to read it then you probably need to most of all.
The setup of the book is a play off of the classic 12 step programs used by AA and such. It is a tongue in cheek approach that turned me off initially. But in the end I found it to be a very appropriate and efficient way for the author to organize his ideas.

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Breakthrough book provides life-changing insights for Christians trapped between the grace-killers of self-adequacy and self-righteousness.

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